The word
"inordinate" means excessive or beyond what is considered normal or reasonable.
Full definition
In fact, the poster dog for pancreatitis is the miniature schnauzer due to its high incidence of hyperlipidemia - a condition of
inordinate amounts of fat in the blood - «doggie high cholesterol,» if you will.
It can be overwhelming and lawyers often fall into the trap of
spending inordinate amounts of time trying to pick the perfect option.»
After brief introductions to the main characters, this cannon explodes
with inordinate amounts of bloody mayhem.
The tablet will be at the receiving end of another round of
inordinate delay which the company explained is due to a fault in the manufacturing process.
Corcoran spent
inordinate time focused on a lawsuit filed by the Florida Educators Association challenging the state's private school voucher program.
«The Gates Foundation's MET project (much but not all of which the AFT agrees with) has found that combining a range of measures — not
placing inordinate weight on standardized test scores — yields the greatest reliability and predictive power of a teacher's gains with other students.
God's «
inordinate fondness for beetles» *, combined with certain human activities, is now causing some serious problems indeed.
The text
gives inordinate attention to Jabez, so we will grant that he was honored.
For the new streets, Oddo chose Cupidity Drive, which means
inordinate desire for wealth; Fourberie Lane, defined as trickery and deception; and Avidity Place, derived from avidita, meaning greed.
A parody of a political prostitute has instead been unleashed through the manipulation of online and mainstream media to give the impression that the man was desperate and consumed by the spirit of
inordinate ambition.
Traditionally, higher risk clients often
consume inordinate amounts of attorney and / or non-attorney time that may be much better spent with other, more profitable, clients or developing other types of business from existing and / or potential clients and referral sources.
«Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as
inordinate love of anything else.»
I also took some issue with the perhaps
inordinate emphasis on their status as immigrants, who didn't pay taxes, especially in a culture and climate of growing xenophobia.
For the foreseeable future, however, consumerism - understood
as inordinate concern for things material - will be driven by extreme deprivation.
At one of golf's most important events of the year «wiregrass» and «native sandy areas» are
receiving inordinate coverage and becoming the largest part of the U.S. Open.
The housing boom was born less
from inordinate risk - taking than from the unwillingness of investors to take and bear considered risks.
Most short term debt managers are highly conservative, and don't take
inordinate risks.
In December, the developers — under the name Mount Builders LLC — sued Oddo after he took to the dictionary for revenge over the project and chose Cupidity Drive, using a word
meaning inordinate desire for wealth; Fourberie Lane, defined as trickery and deception: and Avidity Place, which is derived from avidita, meaning greed, for the new streets.
The spirit of 1775 that Alan Heimert has compared so convincingly to that of the Great Awakening, had not been able to survive genuine adversity or overcome the selfish proclivities or
inordinate demands of individuals.
It is absolutely true and deplorable that Americans
eat inordinate amounts of gluten in their diet, more gluten still if they consume many commercial products (many brands of breads are made with added gluten to make the loaves, and us, grow and grow).
«Many contractors have been burned around the world where they had
inordinate costs in utility relocation that were not properly budgeted, and the risk was not properly shared with the state.»
In the report, we stress that simply asking for a letter of good standing or reading a charter contract isn't nearly enough to assure that investor funds won't be put
at inordinate risk.
Yet, I see so many authors
waste inordinate amounts of time on fruitless book marketing activities.
Although children who have been
through inordinate amounts of stress will have some fixing to do, the majority of our work will be focused on building your child's very self and creating self - respect.
Tax these enormous, ornate, arrogant churches, mosques, synagogues as the commercial real estate they are and finally let them approach offsetting the horrendously
inordinate burden they place on the infrastructure and staffing of our strapped communities.
Frightened teachers and para-professionals will spend
inordinate hours on training to teach children to be more advanced test - guessers.
On the other hand, children from low - conflict marriages tend to see their parents» divorce as a personal tragedy and appear to
experience inordinate adversity, both psychologically and socially, including their own ability to form quality intimate relationships.
In cases of seemingly
inordinate water consumption, your pet may be suffering from hyponatremia, an insufficient sodium disorder.
In reality, crime scene investigators often spend
seemingly inordinate amounts of time gathering and assessing evidence and then present it as probabilities rather than the kind of definitive result expected of a court room filled with actors rather than real people.
In recent sleep lab studies of 600 people age 30 or older, Mignot was surprised to find that 1 percent — or 20 times as many as with classic narcolepsy — suffered from
inordinate sleepiness, had a high frequency of the autoimmune marker linked to narcolepsy, and went very rapidly into REM when they napped.
You no longer need to go to a gym and pay
inordinate sums of money every month just to have access to flimsy equipment and the wrong crowd.
They
include inordinate squinting, consistent eye redness and soreness, eye inflammation, dense greenish - yellow pus coming out of the eyes, and flaky mucus that accumulates right by the eyes.
The wildfires in Texas that saw death and destruction spread through the site put
inordinate pressure on State Governor, and Republican front runner, Rick Perry.
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